basically… most of my life

Welcome to paradise!

It may sound like a line from a futuristic movie, right? at least this is how it was for me the first time it bounced into my mind…

I used to know something, from when I was very little… I may have seen it in some movie: a very good way of learning a foreign language is by being shown the things, not by having them translated, in another language, which is also not your native one…

Still, I know it cannot be applied to abstract concepts and describing thoughts or complex structures, but … Wait!

Someone just interrupted me telling me this exact same phrase: “you know when you can say that you understand a language? When you start to pick up phrases from songs…”.